Congrats on the launch and thanks for writing about your story – it's truly invaluable to me, personally.
How did you cut your teeth with iOS development? I'm traditionally a backend (hobbyist) developer, and am a little lost as to what are good resources to get started on iOS development for someone who's already familiar with programming
Re:Launch an App
by danielmgauthier on Friday May 29, 2020 @08:34PM
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I started doing iOS stuff in 2012, so a lot has changed since then! If you're just getting into it now, I'd probably recommend diving straight into SwiftUI, which is Apple's new UI framework, and likely the future of iOS dev. Paul Hudson's "Hacking with Swift" website has a "100 days of SwiftUI" series that I've seen people really enjoying – might be worth checking out!
Thank you! Definitely will!
the big nerd book is generally good and pretty thorough and recommended often. however, it's tutorial form though so if that's your jam it works well. i tend to find that the tutorial form a bit less useful as it's too verbose and storylike.
Thank you very much! Tutorials are hit or miss, but I'll definitely give this a try
Can you elaborate more on the IAP rejections you went through? Were they related to asking for "donations"?
Could you talk about why you decided to go native iOS and not use something like Flutter to allow you to go to both platforms from one codebase? I'm currently trying to figure out what to do for this idea I have for an app. One the one hand I really like Swift but on the other hand iOS adoption in my country is kind of low so not making an Android app seems kind of dumb. I absolutely hate the native Android SDK so that's definitely not an option.
Re:Launch an App
by danielmgauthier on Friday May 29, 2020 @08:31PM
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Short answer: I'm a professional native iOS developer ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Been doing this full-time for many years, so that's the area where I'm trying to make a splash with my personal projects at the moment. I'm by no means against cross-platform tools though, if it suits your product and your goals! It's easy for people like me, who are super embedded in the whole Apple ecosystem, to forget that iPhones aren't that common in many parts of the world.
Thanks for the kind words. Sorry you can't check it out – really wish I could get this onto Android too, but I'm a solo iOS developer who can only take on so much at once :(